Where does linguistic structure come from? Recent gesture elicitation studies have indicated
that constituent order (corresponding to for instance subject–verb–object, or SVO in English) …

This paper explores how information flow properties of a network affect the formation of
categories shared between individuals, who are communicating through that network. Our …

We provide a computational model of semantic alignment among communicating agents
constrained by social and cognitive pressures. We use our model to analyze the effects of …

The aim of the articleis to study peculiarities of nominations of minerals in Russian and in its
regional version, in the socio-lexicon of the Ural mining workers. For this purpose, a …

The distribution of colors in the environment shapes local peoples' perceptions of those
colors, a phenomenon observable across all types of environments. We analyzed color …

During the development across various timescales, languages tend to adopt variants
exhibiting greater communicative fitness (Christiansen & Chater, 2016). This theoretical …

One of the driving forces of language evolution is the selection of variants that suit the
communicative needs of its users. Crucially, fitness of linguistic variants may largely depend …